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Archive for April, 2011

Bull Market Still Dragging Stocks & ETFs Higher (IJK, IDX, GXG, EWY, EPU, XRT, XOP, XLI, OII, BLK, T, DOW, EMC, AAPL, GOOG, INTC, CSCO, HON)

April 25th, 2011

Jon D. Markman:  The bull market in stocks may be getting long in the tooth, but it’s still intact.  That was evidenced by strong earnings and rising valuations last week. Read more…

IDX, NYSE:GXG, XOP, XRT

Three ETFs To Watch This Week: (XLP, CHIE, SWH, PG, KO, PEP, MSFT)

April 25th, 2011

Last week marked a shortened trading week in observance of Good Friday, but that does not mean that investors were left with an uneventful four days. On the contrary, markets went haywire Read more…

NYSE:CHIE, SWH, XLP

Wagner Daily: Potential Breakout Entry In The Utilities ETF (XLU, KOL, SPY, DIA)

April 25th, 2011

Stocks closed modestly higher on Thursday as volume fell to end the holiday shortened week. The markets gapped up at the open and spent the remainder of the day consolidating near session Read more…

KOL, XLU

New Natural Gas ETF Alternative: iPath Debuts Seasonal Natural Gas ETN (DCNG, UNG, UNL, NAGS, GAZ)

April 24th, 2011

iPath has introduced its Seasonal Natural Gas ETN (NYSE:DCNG), giving investors yet another way to gain exposure to natural gas prices through exchange-traded products. Read more…

NAGS, NYSE:DCNG, NYSE:GAZ, UNG, UNL

Are Fund Flows Providing A Sell Signal? (SPY, EEM, RSX, EWY, THD, TUR)

April 24th, 2011

Emerging markets funds took in $1.5 billion last week, which is leading some of the brokerage firms to call the asset class overbought. Read more…

NYSE:EEM, NYSE:EWY, RSX, SPY, THD, TUR

Gold – What To Watch Out For In Early May (GLD, GDX, GDXJ, SGOL, DGP, IAU, DZZ, GLL, DGZ)

April 24th, 2011

We have written before that institutional investors are going to wake up one day and realize that they need to buy gold for their portfolios. Well, that’s beginning to happen. Read more…

IAU, NYSE:DGP, NYSE:DGZ, NYSE:GDX, NYSE:GDXJ, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:GLL, SGOL

Will The S&P 500, Silver, Gold, & Oil Breakout? (SPY, SLV, GLD, USO, UUP)

April 24th, 2011

The price action in the financial markets this week has added to the continued confusion about where equity prices are headed. Precious metals and oil prices have been working higher for quite Read more…

NYSE:GLD, SLV, SPY, USO, UUP

Silver Investors: What Goes Up, Must Come Down…Eventually (SLV, AGQ, ZSL, DBS, PSLV, GLD, IAU, USO)

April 23rd, 2011

If you think the crude oil market has gone totally out of control in the past month or so, observe the Silver market, which has basically gone parabolic in the week of April 17, going from $41.75 Read more…

IAU, NYSE:AGQ, NYSE:DBS, NYSE:GLD, PSLV, USO, ZSL

iPath Rolls Out 18 “Pure Beta” Commodity ETNs (DIRT, WEET, HEVY, CORN, NAGS, CRUD, USCI)

April 22nd, 2011

Barclays Bank PLC rolled out 18 new exchange-traded notes on Thursday, introducing a new suite of products designed to give investors exposure to various commodities. Each of the new ETNs Read more…

NAGS, NYSE:CORN, NYSE:CRUD, NYSE:DIRT, NYSE:HEVY, USCI, WEET

Emerging Markets Forecast: Which Ones To Hold, and Which Ones To Fold (EWS, EWT, PLND)

April 22nd, 2011

Martin Hutchinson:  Late last year, as part of Money Morning‘s “Outlook 2011″ economic-forecast series, I suggested investing in emerging markets that were relatively cheaply priced Read more…

NYSE:EWS, NYSE:EWT, PLND

Buying This Nuveen S&P High Yield Municipal Bond ETF Requires A Leap Of Faith (HYMB, HYD, CBND)

April 22nd, 2011

Ron Rowland:  Can a passive index fund accurately track its index when it has only one holding for every 423 holdings of the underlying index?  Last week (4/14/11), State Street Global Advisors Read more…

NYSE:CBND, NYSE:HYD, NYSE:HYMB

Crude Oil Prices: What’s Behind The Spike To $112 And Why There’s More To Come (USO, OIL, DBO, UCO, SCO, OIH, DIG, DUG)

April 22nd, 2011

Kent Moors:  Crude oil prices rose for the third straight day yesterday (Thursday) – with more of the same to come. Read more…

NYSE:DIG, NYSE:DUG, OIH, OIL, UCO, USO

Guggenheim Funds Exchange-Traded Fund Declares a Distribution

April 22nd, 2011

Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC, is pleased to announce that the Claymore U.S. Capital Markets Bond ETF has declared a distribution. The table below summarizes the distribution Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS

Uranium Prices: How To Profit As Uranium Prices Hit $140 (URA, CCJ, URRE, UEC, RTP, BHP)

April 22nd, 2011

Money Morning Staff:  Uranium spot prices and shares of uranium mining companies have plunged amid fears that the situation in Japan could deteriorate into a nuclear meltdown on par with Read more…

URA

ETF Pipeline: Floating Rate Bonds, European Bonds, And More (FLTR, BWX, TZD, TZV, BND, SCHZ, AGG)

April 22nd, 2011

The past week has seen the continuation of brisk expansion in the ETF industry, with more than a dozen new products debuting. The product pipeline continues to fill as well, with the most Read more…

NYSE:AGG, NYSE:BND, NYSE:BWX, SCHZ, TZV

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